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Navistar Supports ATA's Driver Recruitment Initiative For Returning Military Personnel

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Navistar International Corp. presented a $10,000 check to ATA in support of its initiative to recruit returning military personnel into the trucking industry, TheTrucker.com reported last week."We're proud to support the ATA's driver recruitment effort," said Jim Hebe, Senior Vice...

Despite Budget Crisis, Los Angeles Spends Taxpayers' Money for Teamsters

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Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa called for additional job cuts last week to help mend the city's current $212 million budget shortfall that is expected to double next year, reported the Los Angeles Times."Villaraigosa's threats provided the clearest sign yet...

Port Group Rejects Teamster Effort to Amend Federal Transportation Law

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The American Association of Port Authorities (AAPA) will not join efforts by the Ports of Los Angeles (POLA) and Oakland to amend federal transportation law, the Journal of Commerce reported Jan. 27. "At issue in this debate is an effort...

Despite Focus on Jobs, Mayor Will Not Yield at Port of LA

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Facing a local unemployment rate of nearly 14 percent, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has stressed that he's focused on one goal often overlooked in his previous term: creating jobs. To do so, the Mayor has turned to some of...

Air Quality Improves At Port Of Long Beach, Study Says

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The Port of Long Beach has significantly reduced air pollution since 2005, according to a recent Air Emissions Inventory report. The Port of Long Beach achieved its best air quality report card since emissions studies began in 2002 through cleaner...

Banning Owner-Operators is Wrong, Says Daily Breeze Newspaper

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State and local politicians shouldn't try to do the job of Teamsters organizers, the Daily Breeze wrote in their Dec. 12 article Focus on pollution, not labor."There's nothing wrong with the Teamsters wanting to organize truck drivers. But there is...

Attacks on Port of Long Beach are a Fraud, says Long Beach Press-Telegram editorial

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Attempts by the Teamsters Union and their allies in the environmental community to demonize the Port of Long Beach as being soft on pollution are a fraud, the Long Beach Press-Telegram writes in a Dec. 7 editorial."The best evidence of...

Long Beach City Rejects Appeal of Port Settlement

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"Long Beach City Attorney Robert Shannon has rejected an appeal to the City Council that sought to overturn the settlement agreement between the Port of Long Beach (POLB) and the American Trucking Associations," writes the Cunningham Report. The appeal filed...

LA Spending Exorbitant Amounts of Tax Dollars to Defend Union Position

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The city of Los Angeles has spent over $1 million in lobbying and litigation to defend the union-friendly concession requirements attached to the Clean Truck Program at the Port of Los Angeles, writes Bill Mongelluzzo in his Nov. 13 Journal...

Truck Tonnage Will Grow Despite Recent Intermodal Attention

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Intermodal freight movement has become all the rage since Warren Buffett's $26 billion investment in Burlington Northern Railroad, writes industry analyst John Schulz in a recent Gerson Lehrman Group report. "But how much freight, really, is going to be moved...